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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
The Penalty of Barkseper,s sobriety.

The Macon ga Telegraph.
There is an odd genius engaged in the
railroad business who has worked on every
foot of the freight trains from the foot
rest of the pilot as fisgman to the ca Ooose
as conductor. He is of fidgety, restless
nature, and a Job of more than six months
duration grows monotonous. When he
gives mp one position he hops on another
road and takes any position offered him,
whether it be train hand or engineer,
brakeman or conductor. II he starts at
the lowest round he soon works his way
up, as he is one of the best railroad men in
the country. 1t sometimes happened that
when he couldn't &c. job on the railroad
he would do something else.
In a Texas town he took a position as
bartender. He Kept on an average drunk
for three months, and pleased his boss IN
til Baptist preacher came along The
bartender and the preacher became fast
friends, until one day he won all the
preachers money and he sought to get
even by preaching a sermon to his congre-
CATION OF one, and by picturiHg the loneli-
ness OF the congregations old mother in
Georgia, who had none but the fondest
wishes for her erriDg son in far away
Texas. This sermon deeply impressed the
railroad bartender, and he kept sober for
five days on q stretch. At the end of this
time the owner OF the bar called him up
and told him he had no further use for
him. by the way" said the bartender,
'if you don't mind telling it, I'd like to
know what you turned me off for The
proprietor replied: "H ou've been drunk
for the last live days and don't want any
drunken men around me- He bad mis-
taken the conduct of his bartender when
sober.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of simple
vegetable remedy for the speedy aud per
msnent cure of Consumption, Bronchitis,
Cstarrh, Asthma and all Throat and Lung
affections, also positive and radical cure
for Nervous Debility and all nervous Com
plants, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty to make it known TO his suf-
ferlDg fellows. Actuated by this motive
and desire to relieve human suffering, l
will send free of charge, to all who desire
it, this recipe in German, French or Eug-
lsh, with full directions for preparing and
using. Sent by mail by addressing with
stamp, naming this paper, w A. Noyes,
149 Powers Block, Rochester, n. Y.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
Tolrver's Nell.
Tid.RitR.

She's a leetle mite o. creetur,
Harry knee high to a duck,
But ter sigDt cuter, sweeter
Face has never been my luck,
Ha'ra middln' s0rIel color,
Eyes that make the sky look duller;
Thet's her style an suits me well
Ez the rest o. Toll ver's Nell.
Laws, she wouldn' rach my shoulde
Boosted up on tipsy-toesl
Yeti feel er right smart bolder
Wen she amt so We y close.
Gurus thet gel sh'u daze me,
Wen no man er beast kin faze me-
Pears like it's kind o spell
No one hez 'cept Toll'ver's Nell.
lam not much use ter takin'
Any word off any man;
But ! Set plumb scarf an shakin'
Wen she 'casion'ly SEE, Dan
How long fore ven low it's true
Thet ! hev no use Tor you"
She's a master hand to tell
Cuttin' things, is TOlI'Ver's Nell.
Thar be men I'D git offended
BY sech plain-out talk. we say?
Well, ii pears e. IL ! m Tended
Stren'th Ter stan ii this-a-way;
Fer I'm bcun' ter stick till she
Takes me ter git shet er me;
re kin wear out any gel,
Tho she's sOt as TOll'Ver's Nell!
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
The Old Glass Room.
YOuth's Communion.


The light is warm on Romans hills
With halls OF learning crowned;
The sunset shadow, frightening, Ills
The memory haunted ground.
o bowery heights o sunlit peaks
Ny eye to you once more
Is turned, aud dim with feeling. seeks
What once it sought with glowing cheeks
Old class room Number Four.
walk the upward path alone
That once walked with friends;
A pilgrim TO the halls. alone
Ny hating step ascends,
see the psne-plumed hill tops rise
Around me as of yore:
Below, the weir cloud-shadowed, lies;
Above, the blue lakes OF the skies;
The silent halls, before.
o shaded window that see.
By pilgrim years endesred,
Where Oft dreamed, and fair to me
The futures light appeared:
Lawns, where used 20 sport and play
With classmates seen no more
SprIngless and summarizes to-day
Ivend alone LIES autumn way
To class room Number Four.
Where are they now, where are they now,
The friends who gathered there.
And oft, with faith -illumiued brow,
Spoke OF tie future fair?
Where are the ardent hands that met
Each evening at the door?
Ny life is green in memory yet,
But never can my heart forget
Old class room Number Four.
One sleeps beside the mobile seas,
Where his young life began:
And one beneath you crimsoned trees,
Who died for Aracsn.
Kind nature spreads the grass and fern
The graves of Others DER;
The Handicapped leaves above them burn,
Their feet, alas win ne'er return
To class room Number Four.
We toll and SOW, but only gain
The harTests OF our prayers:
our hopes in God alone remain
OF all our anxious cares.
To these, as only helms. appear
The ali OF learnings store,
The classic lore, the thoughts of seers,
gathered in those early years
spent in Number Four.
The light is low, the sunsets glow
Ecarce hides the evening star,
And winds through dreamy shades below
The silver Charles sfar.
FAREWELL o shadow halls.
| neer may see you more;
Altar the voice of duty calls,
AS s0mber night around me calls
And class room Number Four.
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Not Yet Wholly Dspraved.

The Epoch.
Visitor Ito convict). what are you in
for, my friend7"
Convict. "Sneak-thieving and picking
pockets, sir. i ann very glad you asked me"
Visitor. why"
Convict. 81 was afraid you might take
me for one Of the Doodle Aldermen"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
A Vacation Incident.

From the Boston Courier
Ii was not her nstty suit,
Nor her pretty little boot,
Which encascd tiny foot,
Nor her hat with ribbons blue,
Which so iauntily was set
Over tresses black as jet
Win q recent bath still wet,
Ny attention TO her drew.
Itwas not her'spsrkling eyes,
Bright as stars in winter skies,
Nor her ripe lips coral dyes,
Nor her cheeks like roses fair,
Nor her rounded dimpled chin,
Shapely nose, of satin skin,
(ChRrms that lovers always vim
That my steps arrested there.
II was none OF these, l say,
Ny attention DIRE that day,
Where the merry WaYelets play
Up aud down the pebbled strand
Mo- her bus tie. wOman's pride,
BY some means became united.
Down her back saw ii slide:
Drop ana fall upon the sand.
Red her cheeks began TO glow,
Then became as waite as snow,
And her tears began to hOw,
While her bosom rose and fell,
As / pOndered what to do,
None was present save us tw0),
Up the sands she wildly flew
Vanished in a beach hotel.
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THE POETS CORNER.

"A kudc Awakening
Journal OF Education.
She had face SURPRISING fair;
All men admired her beauty rare
And i?
Well, / adored her, nothing less;
To be with her was happiness
Three-ply.
or course she knew: she was not blind;
She saw my plight. and she was kind
And Rood:
For when asked her il she'd wed
A chap like me, she blushed, and said
She would.
Oh, then the summer quickly flew
Till the time came to say adieu
One night
She promised when / went away
That every single blessed day
Shed write.
But her first letter drove me mad
Almost, with wild despair, for sad
To tell
This lovely maid. for whom yearned
So longingly, had never learned!
To spell.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
Letting Well Enough Alone.

Wife Ito husbsnd)-I caught Bridget
starting the fire with kerosene, John.
Husband-How much do we owe her?
Wife-Four months wages.
Husband-Well, let her 60 on with the
kerosene.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
No. 2I43.-An Enigma.

What the profile waves are saying,
And the wind through pine boughs PLAYING,
Or their mirth mad melody,
Piping in the shrouds at sea.
What the l0ye-sick Philomel
Tells his passion in the well,
And the lesser birds that be,
When they swell the symphony.
What the men of genius bring,
When they with strange csroling.
Make dumb good and ivory rings
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
No. 2.1sO-A Transportation.

o, why does Jas. Pancake" LOOK
So very much like a spOokf
A coxcomb you might call MIN,
He's an ape, and that's fact:
For who but a monkey like him,
Would so like a monkey act?
"A B. GISSEP
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
No. a,14a.-A Progres.ive Square.

j. Pure from barbaIous words. 2. A tin meat
screen to reflect the heat for baking. IVORY 9.
backward. 4. An English humoriSt (l7l3-I76Sl.
5. a dealers term for roofing tins (Wor. supp.
6. A male name.
-HAZELTON.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
KNoTTY PROBLEMS.

-FOUR readers ARE invited to furnish original
enigmas, charsdes, riddles, REFUSES, and other
''Knotty Problems" addressing al c0mmuni-
cations relative to this department to K. B.
Chadbourn, Lewiston, Maine.l
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26

FTT5.-An hts stopped free by DR.. Kline's
Great Nerve Restorer. No Fits after first days
use. Marvellous cure. Treatise and 81 trial bot
tie free to Fit cases Send to DR.. Kline, 931 Arch
street PHILADELPHIA. Pa,
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No. a.1al-Cnrtailmants

Complete privilege I am:
Curtail'd ! on the altar stand;
Curtail' again am head:
Once more, and am in Ireland;
A last curtailment being made,
A parent then is near at hand.
UNKNOWN AUTHOR,
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No. 2136-A Familiar Saying.

No. 2I3T-A Numerical Puzzle.
Tangle of thread in = s, fingers.
Fucker on forehead fair,
Patiently Nan over the total fingers,
With such a mature little air.
10, 3, s, 9, 10 to make lace,
Learning to / 70 z. is she;
But smooth the wrinkles from dimpled face
For frowns and dimples 40 not agreS.
A. Z.
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Save the pieces! 1Oc ROYAL gluesceum.
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No. 213S.-A Metagram.
OF letters four 1 am composed,
A man OF wisdom great:
And sometimes also ! am used
A kind of plant to state.
But now, II you will change my head,
Part OF q book ami
And likewise an attendant young
In me you will descry.
Change once again, and then you will
Afnrious passion see;
And sincerely hope. my friends,
You'll ne'er get into me.
Another change will plainly show
lam remuneration.
Earn'd by all grades OF working men
Throughout the British nation.
Renew my head once more, and then
prison appear.
From which sweet sounds oft issue forth
That pleasant are 70 hear.
NO. 2139-Arithmettcal Quizzes.
I. Show In how many different Ways eighty.
mo "a n ne divided futo three shares, SO TINT
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the first may be divisible by three, the second
by four, and the third bv hye-in all cases with
out leaving a remainder. The first snare Is
never 10 exceed half the second, the second is
to be less than the third, and no share is to bs
under six.
The sum OF nine figures a number will make,
From which, II Just fifty you will please to
take,
One-thiTd of that number remains still behind
The solution of this you re requested to find.
3. Two boys, A and B. with walnuts to sell,
find that BIS stock was one-thirteenth more than
AS; they agreed to sell on exactly the same
terms; afterselling all accordingly, they fud
that has taken the same amount OF money as
B. What was this amount How many wal
nuts had each boy at first, and how much did
they charge Tor them?
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-10-26
October.

McMillsn's Magazine.
Altful wind about the caves,
That gways the creaking door;
The shadows OF the falling leaves
Fit past me on the floor.
The Autumn skies are clear above,
But silent is their song;
Oh spirit of the chapgeless love
Keep back my Autumn long.
In vain with gold the forest weaveS
It's sylvan greenness Ger;
The shadows OF the falling leaves
Fit past me on the floor.
1t means the world is growing old,
1t means no birds to sing;
Oh. not for all the AutumnS gold
Would foregO my Spring!
Hard Luck,
From Puck.
Your eyes slowed on me, and your dancing
Flew backward from a damp and lofty brow;
My eyes dropped low before your tond blue
STARE
The music shrek and moaned-I hear II now;
/ he ar the measured steps, the swishiDg trains
That such sure pitfalls make for thoughtless
speed,
surging beneath the soles OF headlong swains,
And bringing them, too Oft 70 grief indeed!
hear your heart, wild throbbing on the curve
OF my bare arm, as you upnOld my weight
Through that swift vortex with mans hne
The calm and glorious strength that mocks at
Fate
Not SOL For down with binding crash we 60.
A passing heel has rent my hounce in twain,
Our walt is done. shah not dance again.
EARL Z, LyTE
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2120.-Eliphay Job iv: 1SI7)
2121.-Nerbally.
E222.-Chantauqu Literary and Scientific
Circle.
2l23.-W-e-aves
2lA,-A-ver-age.
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ODrCI0NC Officers pay, etc, procured, de-
pEnNlUNN serters relieved. p years Prac-
tice Success or no lee. Write
for circulars ard new laws A. w. McCor.
mick & Son. Washington, ID C., Cincinnsti.o.
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IN plye To sell our Rubber Stamps. Free
III Ihlp Catalogue to Agents.
CHANpIER & FISHER. Clevel and o.
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:! SE RAE FARMERS #:$; !;

VA ANTED-Three honest pushing men in
w your vicinity; special inducements now
iast-seiling specialties. Don't delay Salary
from start. Brown Brothers, Nursery men, Chi
cago. IL. 81
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OUBSCRIBE for "The Farm and Live stock.
- An excellent paper; so cents year.
handsome SO cent shawl given to each sub
scriber. G. NJ. Walker, indianapolis, Ind Pub
Usher. 10
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I. Show In how many different Ways eighty.
one can be divided into three shares, 20 that
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What pleases me, when l am tormented
with sieeplessness is q little health book
of my own, in which / have jotted down a
few-a very few-of the ''infallible remed-
les for sleeplessness which had been tried
in thousands-or perhaps IL was millions
of cases, most OF which were in the pre-
scriber's own immediate family, or, at the
farthest, circle of intimate friends, and had
never once failed to effect q permanent
and, Ii Is needless 10 say, instant cure. All
of these cases collectively and each one by
Itself individually, were, land was exactly
like my own in cause, duration and opera.
ton. The simplicity of the combined
ence:
Eat nothing within three hours before
retiring.
Eat : light bat substantial luncheon Just
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copyrighted, 1871
"REMINISCENCES.
ssWhat is that, MOTHER
"Ths rink, my child;
The year it was built all the people went wild.
They crowded its walls, and to musie's glad
sound
On furniture casters they slid themselves round
But the FOOL killer cane, with his two handed
club.
And he smote all the sliders, from graybesrd to
cub:
And the building so silent is used, as you see,
by the M0urners' Embalming and Stroud Com
pany.
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FARM AND FlRFs,n.


"a: there r is enough in the III
wife and mother pyopsrlv , ~
satisfy the heart and mind y
reasonable woman. =
Mullins: Take three c,r.
add three teaspoonfuls Of ha Il y
der. and a little salt. Add oa
milk and two eggs. BAKE !.
oven. in rings or gem tins
at Work. ''
Lawns may be fortified 5.
coating them with rank stahls s''7
80 as to make them look liks ! \
yard. Pulverized poultry mann.
upon the grass will suficieotlv
it, and at the same time win ~. !, y
ure it, as it will settle in amoa.
grass roots out Of sight Oces.;s.
a dressing of superphosphats
beneficial to a lawn. = Jrd;as
Journal.
--Buttered Parsnips Wash M
in cold sailed water from tbreo.os.]
to an hour. Skin and cut into 8, )
thick slices. Have ready in ! N
pan a tablespoonful Of butter M
teaspoonful of flour, previously 81
together, and two tablespoons
milk. When it boils up, put in tbe]
nips and shake over the fire uDgl
ing hot. Serve hot in covered !
Farm, Field and Stockman.
An easy way to pack dressed
try for market is to lay the birds N
form rows, heads toward The Il,
the. box, and breasts up. A ve,l
clean wheat straw may separsis
layers, but some packers use nol
Fill the boxes so full that It win !,
a little pressure to force the !
down. Address to a trusty acer
commission dealer.-Golden Ri,
-Oat Meal Gems: Take a Gun
meal and soak it over night in On,
of water; in the morning add on,
of sour milk, one teaspoon Of ssla
one cup of flour, a little salt Tie
baked in irons as other gems and
fins. If on the first trial you find
moist and sticky. add 4 little
flour. rs some flour thickens NOR
others. Or use sweet milk and b
powder. Cincinnati Times.
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Substantial County Roads

The Importance of good roads in a
farming region is not sufficiently APP
preciated. The first cost of such roads
is of course greater than a roughly
made dirt road. but the wear and tear
on vehicles and horses, the loss of time
on account of bad going in wet weather,
and other drawbacks incident to poorly
constructed highways, more than
counterbalance the extra cost. It is
estimated that roadway of stone,
twelve to eighteen inches deep, wide
enough for wagons to pass easily, will
add enough to the value of the farms
through which it passes to pay the cost
of construction ten times over in
localities where material is easily pro-
cured, and such road will be almost
ndestructible.-MY Y. Examiner.
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DIR. Gilmore Palmer, OF Buffalo, N.
Y, says: Let us hold fast to that
which is good,' and among the good
things he reckons catnip tea for any
thing; onion syrup for coughs and colds;
weak I've for sick stomach; infusion OF
common black tea for sore eyes; soft
soap and white pine gum for boils and
feloHs. etc,
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"A Rockland, Me-, smoker bought
cigar the other day in one of the stores
Of that city. and on smoking it found
small gold ring on the inside. The
cigar was of Pennsylvania make, and it
was evidently not prize, as the box
had no lottery attachment. The only
way to account for the find is that some
lady cigar maker accidentally manu-
featured her ring into the cigar, it
being evidently lady's ring.
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be, there will come time when the
stoutest and most emphatic interroga-
ton will evoke from US no answer. As
soon as we have closed our lips for the
final silence, no power on earth can break
that taciturnity.
But where, o Christian, will be your
spirita In a scene of infinite gladness.
The spring morning Of Heaven waving its
blossoms in the bright air. Victors fresh
from battle showing their scars. The
rain OF earthly sorrow struck through
with the rainbow of eternal Joy. In one
group God and the angels and the re-
deemed-Paul and Silas, Latimer and
Ridley, Isaiah and jeremiah, Payson and
John Milton, Gabriel and Michael, the
archangel. Long line of choiristers
reaching across the hills. Seas of joy DASH
| ing to the white beach. Conquerors
marching from gate to gate. You among
them.
Oh, what great flock of sheep God will
gather around the celestial well. No
stone on the WELLS mouth, while the shep-
| herd waters his sheep There Jacob will
| recognize Rachel, the shepherdess. And
standing on one side Of the we'll Of eternal
rapture, your children; and on the other
side Of eternal rapture, your Christian
| ancestry, you will be bounded on all
| sides by joy so keen and grand
that no other world has eyer been
permitted to experience it. Out
of that one deep we'll of Heaven, the
| shepherd will dip reunion Cor the be.
reaved,s wealth for the poor, health for
the sick, rest for the weary. And then all
the flock of the Lords sheep will lie
| down in the green pastures, and world
without end we will praise the Lord that
on this summer Sabbath morning we were
permitted to stuly the story Of Jacob and
| Rachel, the shepherdess OF the well in
| Mesopotamia.
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western ranch, engaged to wealthy
Brooklyn maiden, in letter to a gem
tleman in this city, declares that things
are not at all rosy in the great and
boundless West. He is working as
stable boy, and is glad to find even
this employment, though it pays but
little more than the cost OF his board.
philadelphia Press.
Very considerable: Miss Edith
''Why, mamma; hero is notice
in the morning paper of the COM
plete failure of the Widows and
Orphans Benefit Insurance Company!
Wasn't that the company that poor
dear Uncle James had his policy for
cur benefit imp Mamma-"Yes, dear, T"
Edith-'And it was only two days
ago you collected the amount in
fullp" Mamma--"Yes, DEAR Edith
How very fortunate that poor dear
uncle died-or, Imean, how lucky that,
that-he-if he had lived a few days
longer, we-that is-well, he always
was such considerable man. Puck.
There is an undertaker's clerk in
Atlanta, Ca, who has queer idea Of
fun. 1t has been his custom to dress
himself In shroud, lie down in ar
empty coffin, and then have confed'
crate get some unsuspecting citizens to
come and help move him out. And
then as the coffin was being soiemnly
carried out, he would jump out of the
coffin, yell like Comanche Indian
and laugh with delight at the terror o.
the carriers. But the other day SOME
| victims who didn't see where the fur
came in had him arrested and be wa
| fined